Writing Black Scotland: Race, Nation and the Devolution of Black Britain

ISBN-13: 9781474461450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 216 str.

Joseph H. Jackson

Opis

Writing Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish literature, with a focus on the critical significance of blackness. The book reads blackness in Scottish writing from the 1970s to the early 2000s, a period of history defined by post-imperial adjustment. Critiquing a unifying Britishness at work in black British criticism, Jackson argues for the importance of black politics in Scottish writing, and for a literary registration of race and racism which signals a necessary negotiation for national Scotland both before and after 1997.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; On Blackness and Makars: What is a Black Scotland?; Chapter 1: The Britishness of Black Britain; Chapter 2: ‘You Got a White Voice’ – Blackness in Devolutionary Scotland; Chapter 3: The Black Jacobeans – Jackie Kay’s Trumpet; Chapter 4: White Hellscapes – Luke Sutherland’s Jelly Roll; Chapter 5: Mad as a Nation – Suhayl Saadi’s Psychoraag; Conclusion: Anchoring in 2020; Index.